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  • Under chronic stress the adrenal glands become over stimulated and exhausted.

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Tired all day every day?

When the body is stressed (no matter what the stressor is), the nervous system helps us respond by triggering a sympathetic response that increases our heart rate and blood pressure and acts on the adrenal glands, the organ that produces the stress hormones adrenalin, noradrenalin and cortisol. Digestion is slowed down. This prepares the body for what’s commonly known as the flight or fight response.

Food sensitivities

Our gut today is the same as it was 100,000 years ago, but we now expect our bodies to process poor lifestyle choices (stressors) like processed foods, alcohol and antibiotics. When the digestive system is bombarded with these stressors it causes a stress response and becomes irritated and inflamed.

Exhausted adrenal glands

Under chronic stress the adrenal glands become over stimulated and exhausted. The body is smart and compensates for these overworked glands to allow physiological function and movement to continue by using another pathway known as ‘pregnenolone steal’. Pregnenolone or ‘mother hormone’ is the precursor to producing your sex hormones (testosterone) and DHEA your growth/repair hormone.